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I meet many people who still believe that face recognition and other automatic surveillance systems is not available on a large scale. I keep saying that they are wrong.

According to Liquidmatrix, now China is on the track as well: 

 At least 20,000 police surveillance cameras are being installed along streets here in southern China and will soon be guided by sophisticated computer software from an American-financed company to recognize automatically the faces of police suspects and detect unusual activity.

What is even more disturbing in the article is the chips they are distributing to the population - it includes privacy data - birth history, work history, contact info: 

 Data on the chip will include not just the citizen’s name and address but also work history, educational background, religion, ethnicity, police record, medical insurance status and landlord’s phone number. Even personal reproductive history will be included, for enforcement of China’s controversial “one child” policy.

Still not convinced, are you?

Consider that human rights has many different faces - and they tend to stay strong in the so-called western world. Move out of US, Canada or Europe, and they soon start to melt away. Go far enough (not even so far as China), and they are considered interesting and funny ideals.

We scream for respect, and they laugh! 

But you do not have to go to China for this sort of things - UK - with its DNA database, and anti-terror policies, has been considered the Police State of Europe. And Monaco has a long history of being the country with most surveillance in Europe for many years.   

I believe it is evident. We are moving back in time. Back to 1984. But we do not care, because we are living in the Brave new world!